1.
[syn: Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, white-tailed deer, whitetail deer, Odocoileus Virginianus]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wheatear \Wheat"ear`\, n. (Zool.)
A small European singing bird (Saxicola [oe]nanthe). The
male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings
and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the
tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each
side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper,
fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Whitetail \White"tail`\, n.
1. (Zool.) The Virginia deer.
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2. (Zool.) The wheatear. [Prov. Eng.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
whitetail
n 1: common North American deer; tail has a white underside
[syn: Virginia deer, white tail, whitetail, white-
tailed deer, whitetail deer, Odocoileus Virginianus]